former hedge fund ceo dave mccormick. their positions have been flip-flopping all night long. thousands of votes still left to be counted. as things stand this race will almost definitely trigger an automatic recount. in the governor s race in pennsylvania trump backed candidate doug mastriano with a clear lead, cnn projects he has won the republican nomination. he is pennsylvania s leading far right figure. he has championed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. he will face democrat josh shapiro the state s attorney general. shapiro is the first nonincumbent to run unopposed in a gubernatorial primary since 1930. also in pennsylvania john fetterman easily won the democratic senate primary, he might be the first candidate to do so from a hospital bed. he is out of surgery this morning after suffering a stroke and receiving a pacemaker just hours before the polls closed yesterday. we will hear from his wife on his condition in just a bit. meanwhile, north carol
carolina where ted budd has secured the republican nomination for senate there. you can look at the effect trump might have had there. in pennsylvania we will see if dr. oz is able to actually win, it does seem that trump s endorsement helped out. north carolina polling share for ted budd pre endorsement we had 9% with undecided allocated. he was nowhere. he was nowhere. losing to the former governor in that state. where did he end up? 59% of the vote. 59%. that s a 50-point jump. ted budd does not win that race without donald trump and i think this kind of gets at something that donald trump can still be a very, very powerful tool for a candidate, he can bring them up, he brought dr. oz up, whether or not it s enough, i don t know, but at this particular point in republican primaries i would much rather have donald trump s endorsement than not. i pulled up the republican governor s race in pennsylvania here, so people can see that doug mastriano has secured the
about what kind of democrat is going to be electable? well, we don t know who is going to be electable yet until the general election happens so i don t want to get ahead of myself there but the margin of victory was definitely striking. i think it s all the things that people have already said this morning here, you know, his look, his ability to connect with voters, kind of his outside the box persona, but i would also add that the democratic establishment really stayed out of this race and i think it was definitely to the detriment of conor lamb and to the benefit of john fetterman. the state party, you know, conor lamb just barely missed the threshold for an endorsement from the state party and more significantly the democratic senatorial campaign committee decided to stay neutral in the race even though conor lamb is right out of central casting in terms of who they would have endorsed and tried to clear the race for in past years. i think that also is part of what s going on he
by about 10 points, if there are 30,000 votes left and he s winning the votes by about 10 points that s more than enough to close the margin. i think we will have to wait and see how many of those votes still could be counted are votes by mail because across the board mccormick is doing better in counties, he s competitive and perhaps leading in the mail vote. there may be a difference between the mail-in ballots sent early versus late. that s what we re watching closely. harry, let s talk about the trump factor overall in last night s primaries. basically, you know, we look at the where trump endorsed, wie call it a mixed evening. endorsement wins, ted budd in north carolina win, mastriano in pennsylvania, granted that endorsement was really, really late, he jumped on board when he felt mastriano was going to win. idaho governor his candidate lost. north carolina 11 madison cawthorn lost. so this was a mixed evening for trump coming on the heels of